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Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit? I Went Looking, and Part of Me Wishes I Hadn't.
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Well that's comparing apples with oranges. Global peace index is whether you're likely to become part of a warzone.
"Scariest" in this context (ie the article) is whether your personal liberty, safety and privacy are at risk.
Very different thing.
Having said that your broad point that there are countries that are far worse for randomly incarcarating foreigners, general corruption and violence. However there are fewer than there used to be as the US tumbles down the ratings.
TL;DR I've lived there and I definitely won't return while the current regime is in power. It is scary for a foreign national. Not as scary as Afghanistan or Colombia but a helluva lot more worrying than say, Canada.
Yeah...
I mean, even your example:
That lines up with the GPI: Canada is 14, US 134, Colombia 141, Afghanistan 157
Obviously Canada is less scary as well...
Like, your tone is disagreement, but you seem to be agreeing with me exactly?
Yessss? That was exactly my point. You had a logic flaw in your argument, even if you reached an apparently reasonable conclusion.
Your broad point is (probably) valid (there are scarier places than the US) but your comparator table is poorly chosen as it is not measuring what you are describing. It's like saying your point is proved because apples and oranges are the same size.
And the important reason why an incorrect comparator matters is because it gives you a false sense of understanding the relationship/ranking.
I intuit that I should be more scared of Afghanistan than the US, but that is subjective not objective.
By using an incorrect comparator you purport to convert a subjective impression into an objective one.: I.e "it is factually the case that the US is less scary than these countries lower down the list", but we don't know that as it hasn't been measured by the list.
There is a particular political group who don't care about facts & truth, I don't like them, and I don't think we collectively should fall into the trap of " it feels truthy"
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No...
You're just ignoring an entire sentence:
I'm sorry I can't put this in a way you can understand, but I'm sure as shit never trying to explain anything to you again, have a nice life bud.
I dont think it can simply be whether or not youre likely to be in a literal warzone if Haiti and the US are like 9 spots apart. It must be odds of being a victim of violence in general. Haiti has a lot of gang violence and basically no effective policing. The US has policing that may ultimately result in you being a victim of violence, plus more guns per capita than anywhere else in the world. I can see those things balancing out to being close on the list, but in the US you would not be likely to end up “in a warzone”. Youd be likely to get killed in other ways though